Snark Attack

Published 10:00 pm, Friday, December 30, 2005

As if this horrible year of war and natural disasters hasn't lasted long enough, scientists announce that in order to keep Earth's rotation in balance (or something like that), an extra second is added to the final day of 2005. Use it well.

-- Merry Nye

President Bush still hasn't come clean about who outed CIA covert operative Valerie Plame, but when The New York Times blows the cover on his domestic spying program, it's suddenly a matter of national import that the leaker be discovered. So, when a leak -- in breach of national security laws -- benefits the administration, it's la-dee-dah, let's take our time. But when a leak hurts the administration, call out the hounds.

Sunday is shaping up to be a strange New Year's Day. There won't be a single college football bowl game played. Most games are on Monday and the Rose Bowl is on far off Wednesday. One friend of mine quipped: "No football games? How am I supposed to get any shopping done?" Another bemoaned fewer empty seats at the movies.

The Rose Bowl is now Jan. 4 -- a Wednesday. One of these years college bowls might get later and later -- pushing the Super Bowl back until, say, October.